Vaccine advisers to U. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, a move that would leave the choice to parents in most ...

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today, and they could vote on possible changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates ...

Stillbirths have been generally trending down in the U.S., but the rate ticked up in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

"If it's really cold outside, you want to make sure that your battery is going to be good in the freezing cold weather," ...

Maine is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address an HIV outbreak in the northern part of the state.

The Africa CDC said the number of cases of cholera stands at three times higher than those reported in 2022. Five countries account for almost 90% of the more than 300,000 cases reported so far this ...

The updated page casts aside decades of research by scientists around the world, which has found no link between childhood ...

Georgia's life expectancy rose more sharply than most U.S. states as the coronavirus pandemic receded, according to the latest CDC data, but still has ground to make up.

Among U.S. adults with obstructive sleep apnea, there has been an increase in deaths related to ischemic heart disease from 1999 to 2022, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.“These ...

The shake-up that resulted in Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, leading the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has ...

For 70 years Globe Santa, a program of the Boston Globe Foundation, has provided gifts to children in need at holiday time.

Mortality among Americans aged 18 to 64 years greatly rose from 2012 to 2022, according to a research letter in JAMA Health ...